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SR 74 (now also US 278) northwest of Altoona: Altoona 1951: 1954 Now Blount and Etowah CR 41 SR 176: 25.618: 41.228 SR 68 east of Collinsville: SR 35 north of Blanche: 1973: current SR 177 — — Leeds: south of Ashville: 1949: 1957 Replaced by relocated SR 25: SR 177: 5.160: 8.304 US 43 at Jackson: US 43 at Jackson
The route is mostly hilly with three-lane stretches at points due to the steep uphills along the route, specifically eastbound. It reaches Altoona, where it junctions with SR 132. It continues to Ivalee, which is home to its junction with SR 179 and is also home to the Mountain Top Flea Market, among the biggest flea markets in the state.
Altoona is a town in Etowah County (and a small portion of Blount County) in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is part of the Gadsden Metropolitan Statistical Area . At the 2020 census , the population was 948.
Wright Brothers National Memorial, located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine. From 1900 to 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright came here from Dayton, Ohio , based on information from the U.S. Weather Bureau about the area's steady winds.
U.S. Route 84 (US 84) in Alabama travels west to east across southern Alabama for 237.400 miles (382.058 km). US 84 enters the state from Mississippi west of Silas and exits into Georgia southeast of Gordon.
The Wright Brothers National Memorial, located atop nearby Kill Devil Hill, is a 60-foot granite pylon paying homage to the Wright Brothers and the first sustained heavier-than-air flight. [3] The U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission also chose the airport as one of the stops for the National Air Tour 2003.
Kill Devil Hills is located at (36.025448, −75.670105), [12] on the barrier islands known as the Outer [ 9 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 5.5 square miles (14 km 2 ), of which 5.5 square miles (14 km 2 ) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2 ) (0.36%) is water.
The title to the property was not clarified until the community wanted to build a church on the site of the former saloon, at which time the probate court transferred ownership from "The Devil" to the Half Acre Community Church. The "Hell's" was dropped from the name at this time and the entire community came to be known simply as Half Acre.